Sentence examples for grant legislative from inspiring English sources

Although Flood had lost his following, he helped Grattan force the British government to renounce its restrictions on Irish trade (1779) and grant legislative independence to Ireland (1782).

The article then identifies eight types of authority that states may grant: legislative, adjudicative, regulatory, monitoring and enforcement, agenda-setting, research and advice, policy implementation, and redelegation.

The article then identifies eight types of authority that states may grant: legislative, adjudicative, regulatory, monitoring and enforcement, agenda-setting, research and advice, policy implementation, and re-delegation.

In 1783 Ireland was granted legislative independence, though it remained subject to George III.

The row has been brewing for months following a vote against granting legislative consent that was supported by all but the Conservative members of the Scottish parliament.

Rather, they wanted to remind lawmakers that they oppose a lockout and that lawmakers have sway over the N.F.L., which has been granted legislative privileges, including an antitrust exemption to negotiate television contracts.

The commission granted legislative leaders greater pay increases, in recognition of their additional duties.

Prosecutors alleged that Yee can be heard in the recordings speaking bluntly about granting legislative favors in exchange for campaign contributions, first for his failed 2011 bid for San Francisco mayor and later for his aborted run for secretary of state.

The general grant of legislative power in the constitution of a state does not enable the legislature, in the exercise either of the right of eminent domain or of the right of taxation, to take private property, without the owner's consent, for any but a public object.

The best-known version of the Bricker Amendment, considered by the Senate in 1953 54, declared that no treaty could be made by the United States that conflicted with the Constitution, was self-executing without the passage of separate enabling legislation through Congress, or which granted Congress legislative powers beyond those specified in the Constitution.

Last month, Peru's Congress granted special legislative powers to his government allowing it to legislate by decree over a 90-day period across five strategic areas, one of which includes water and sanitation.